lcionline Chapter 400 Perverted Master and Servant
Chapter 400 Perverted Master and Servant
This night was destined to be anything but peaceful. Deputy General Zhao mobilized one hundred men, divided into twenty teams, each team responsible for two to three households. They were also tasked with investigating the number of underground caves in the village. During the investigation, they discovered that apart from the first woman rescued, there was no trace of anyone else in the village.
Once all the quantities were determined, a pre-arranged signal flare was launched into the sky, leaving only four entrances to be guarded. The rest were sealed with earth.
Next to the unsealed entrances of the tunnels, piles of firewood soaked in water were placed. Once all the entrances were sealed, the soldiers lit fires and threw the billowing smoke-filled firewood into the tunnels.
In addition, Deputy General Zhao also sent fifty men to ambush in the woods behind the village. The village was surrounded by fields on three sides, except for a dense forest at the back. After discussing with everyone, Xia Yu felt that the most likely place to dig the tunnel entrance was in this forest. However, it was too dark to find the exact location, so Deputy General Zhao ordered his men to keep watch there quietly. All the tunnel entrances in the village were sealed off; if the tunnels were filled with thick smoke, the only way out would be through the woods.
Soaked in smoke and looking disheveled, the commotion as it crawled out of the cave must have been quite loud.
Inside the carriage, the woman, leaning back in her seat, looked at the smiling little girl in front of her and bit her lower lip innocently.
"Miss, is there something wrong with the medicine you just took? Why do I have no strength at all?"
"Perhaps. My medicine is effective, but it will temporarily make you weak and unable to move around. This is so that you can rest properly and it will help the wound heal." Xia Yu smiled gently at the lady.
"I wonder how many of your sister-in-law's family members died at the hands of the thieves?"
"I...I...Everyone in my family except for the young woman is dead, sob...sob..." The woman's eyes immediately reddened when she heard Xia Yu ask this.
"They're so pitiful. Do you miss them, sister-in-law?" Xia Yu asked with a look of sympathy.
The woman felt the little girl's tone was strange, but she still answered, her voice choked with emotion.
"Of course I miss them. This young woman can't sleep at night. She can't even eat when she thinks of her deceased relatives."
"If that's the case, why don't you go underground to look for them?" Xia Yu asked her.
Upon hearing Xia Yu's words, the woman looked up at Xia Yu in astonishment, tears still clinging to her face.
"Miss, I am a weak woman, being watched by that thief. How can I find an opportunity?"
“But before we entered your house, you could have plunged the knife in a little deeper. Just a little deeper, and you could have reunited with your family in the afterlife.” Xia Yu’s face showed a regretful expression.
"What do you mean by that, Miss? I don't understand." The woman lowered her head, looking timid. It's a pity Xia Yu is a young woman; if a man were here, he would probably feel pity for the frail and helpless young woman.
“Sister-in-law, how could you not understand? Didn’t you injure yourself in that wound on your stomach? If you ask me, you’re truly remarkable. If it were me, I could never bring myself to do that.” Xia Yu’s voice grew even gentler.
"Hmph, I never expected a little girl like you, not even of marriageable age, to be so shrewd. Since you've seen through me, do as you please. Why bother putting on an act with me?" Hearing Xia Yu's words, the woman knew she had been exposed, so she stopped pretending to be weak and revealed her true colors.
"Of course I can't just kill you like that. What do you think of my healing medicine? The wound on your stomach is probably starting to heal by now, right? If I cut you a dozen, no, twenty-odd times every day... that still seems too few. How about fifty? And then give you the healing medicine, wouldn't that be fun and interesting?" Xia Yu said with a strange smile on his face, as if he was really looking forward to that scene and enjoying it.
"You're crazy, you don't need to scare me like that. I'm not easily frightened." The woman looked disdainful after hearing Xia Yu's words.
When Xia Yu's words reached the ears of the soldiers surrounding the carriage, everyone's lips twitched involuntarily. Deputy General Zhao even pinched his thigh hard to control the expression on his face.
"How can you say that to me, sister-in-law? I am a Lady of the Township, personally bestowed by the Emperor, a person of noble status. My family is also the first family of loyalty and righteousness appointed by the Emperor. With my background, you should feel honored to play with you every day. Moreover, your family certainly hopes that you can live well. The medicine I developed for injuries uses many rare medicinal herbs; you are fortunate to be able to eat it every day." After saying this, Xia Yu looked at the woman's face again, clicking her tongue in disapproval.
"Your skin is really quite good. I've been researching human skin masks lately. What do you think if I peeled off your whole face and then applied some medicine, would a second skin grow on your face? I've been thinking about doing that for a while, but my dad always stopped me from doing such things. Now that my dad knows you're from a bandit's den, he's agreed to let me play with you. Haha, that's great."
The more Xia Yu talked, the more goosebumps rose on the woman's skin. Thinking of that scene, she couldn't help but shudder.
"You're a madman, a pervert. I don't want to hear it. Stop talking. If you want to kill me, just kill me. Don't waste your breath." The woman didn't want to be with this person for another second. Especially Xia Yu's smile, which now seemed like a demon to her.
"I hate it when people call me crazy. Nineteen, come in and peel her face off." Xia Yu angrily flung her sleeves and left.
The woman watched nervously as Nineteen entered from outside. She found the girl, with her round face and round eyes, quite adorable. Nineteen's face bore the same fear as the woman's, and she held a small knife in her hand—apparently the knife she would use for skinning the animal.
"Sister-in-law, please, please stop calling my hometown 'Jun' a madwoman." She then leaned closer and whispered...
“She really is crazy, but she hates it when people call her crazy. She loves to hear stories, so hurry up and tell her your story. If she’s happy, maybe she won’t make me skin you. If I skin you and she’s not satisfied, the village lord won’t forgive me!” Nineteen’s lips trembled, and he looked like he was about to cry.
"Last time someone stole a few taels of silver from the village lord, she personally skinned that person and made a lantern from it, which she carried around with her every day. But a few days ago she got tired of it and threw it on the road. I don't know which unlucky person picked it up." Nineteen muttered to herself, somewhat obsessively.
"Hurry up and tell me, or the villagers will be swarming out like rabbits. Once one of them speaks, and you say the same thing, the village chief will lose interest and she'll really peel off your face and make a human skin mask. And she won't let you die; she'll use the best medicine to heal your face and see if a new face grows back."
"I'll talk, I'll talk! Go and call the village lord over, I'll tell you everything. Please don't skin me alive!" The woman stammered, seeing how terrified Nineteen was of the human skin lantern, she almost fainted. She believed that such a thing really existed.
Outside the car, Deputy General Zhao pinched himself hard again, shook his shoulders, and tried to shake off the goosebumps on his body.
The master and servant really do a pretty good job of playing the role of perverts.